Château de Chenonceau : After Henry II died, his widow, Catherine de Medici, forced the king’s mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to give her the castle
The earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood were violent and grotesque
In a place inhabited by polar bears, a scientist finds oldest evidence of life on Earth
On the Isle of Skye, researchers have discovered 60 million year old minerals, never before seen on Earth
Some of the most legendary swords of all time
From Avenger and Bond Girl in the 1960s to “Game of Thrones” today: Diana Rigg
The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France
Mystery: Hours before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found in the gutter, disheveled and raving
Pattie Boyd was the real-life “Layla,” who married George Harrison and became the romantic obsession of his close friend, Eric Clapton
The real-life wiseguys behind Scorsese’s “GoodFellas,” who pulled off the multi-million Lufthansa heist
